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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet (actually, sugar)
Message-ID: <207@omen.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 17:39:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 17:39:15 1985
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Reply-To: caf@.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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Summary: 

In article <240@bbncc5.UUCP> sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>On your comments about sugar, for every crackpot book that enumerates the
>dangers of sugar, there are studies which fail to demonstrate ANY
>exceptional deleterious effects other than dental caries and providing
>"empty" calories.  This, of course, is consonant with the empirical
>findings of clinicians.

I'm sorry that I don't have the time to do an extensive search of the
literature, especially since they found might still be dismissed
as crackpot. (What's makes a book crackpot, anyway?)

The "empirical findings" that I am familiar with indicate that sugar
consumption promotes obesity in many people (some are apparently resistant
to this effect).

To me personally, obesity is the main problem with sugar.  I neither add
sugar to the foods I eat nor eat sugar directly out of the box.  But,
it has become more and difficult to find prepared foods that are not loaded
with sugar or other highly refined carbohydrates.  I can't even find a
brand of tartar sauce that doesn't contain sugar anymore.

If sugar free versions of the popular foods were readily avaialble, there
wouldn't be such need to debate this subject.  Because the bad effects
of smoking are widely known, we have no smoking areas available for those
who need them.  When and if the bad effects of sugar are widely known,
there will be no sugar / low carbohydrate foods available for the people
that need them.

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